He’s an embarrassment to both states, but he never could have been elected to public office in Nebraska.

I am nevertheless sick and tired of (among other things) hearing the President of these United States make public statements and issue insults in the style of a low-life, low-class, rowdy teenaged bully. And that is true irrespective of what anyone else says about him.

It is not difficult to find instances where Walz has compared Trump to Nazis etc. Walz’s objection to Trump insulting him when Walz previously insulted Trump reminds me of Truman’s quip about politics: “If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.” If you insult Trump, you deserve to be insulted right back. Civility is a two-way street. For too long, Democrats have assumed that civility is for the Republicans, but not for them.
I was not initially a Trump supporter. I became a Trump supporter when I saw how, unlike “noble” Republicans like Bush, McCain, or Romney, Trump responded to insults by insulting others back. I, for one, am tired of Democrats accusing Republicans and their leaders of being bigots, racists, Nazis, what have you. If you need documentation, I will provide it. Trump fights back. I like that.

Recall the number of times that prominent Democrats, from Walz and Kamala Harris on up, referred to Republicans, Trump, Republican Presidents or Presidential candidates as Nazis, etc.

It began with Henry Wallace, the Democrat Vice Presidential candidate and future VP, in the 1940 Presidential campaign. From Benn Steil’s The World That Wasn’t: Henry Wallace and the Fate of the American Century:

“The Republican candidate is not an appeaser and a friend of Hitler,” he (Wallace) assured an audience in rural Nebraska, “but you can be sure that every Nazi, every Hitlerite and every appeaser is a Republican.”32 Republicans “fought [Roosevelt] at home,” he said in Des Moines, “as Hitler fought him abroad.”33 “Regimented Nazi organizations,” he told a crowd in New York, “are marching in the Republican parade.”34 He even branded as Nazi dupes those prominent liberals that sided with his former party. Willkie supporter John L. Lewis, for example, the president of the CIO and a champion of organized labor, “sounds so much like Herr Goebbels.”35

(One irony here is that the CPUSA and its fellow travelers were vehement isolationists in 1940 . The CPUSA and its fellow travelers had a strong influence in the Progressive Party, under whose banner Wallace ran for President in 1948. Further irony: in reaction to the Korean War, Wallace wrote an apologia about his previous stance towards the USSR: “Why I Was Wrong.”)

And let’s be reminded that while Trump can be harsh with his public opponents, he’s never once insulted the rank and file Democrat voterss. As opposed to Hillary with her “deplorables” remarks and Obummer’s “bitter clingers.”

And Donald Trump has already managed to clear pretty much every low-set manners bar emplaced by his opposition.

IMO, Trump is giving the Democrats a taste of their own medicine. We Republicans haven’t been willing to do that so much in the past. As I recall Reaghan, G. H. W. Bush, and G. W. Bush mostly took it without getting down in the gutter with the Dems. The Democrats have had the MSM on their side and have been able to slur Republicans without much criticism. Trump is not afraid of the MSM. In fact, he has them off balance with his willingness to call them out.

So, the beat goes on. And some of us hate what we’re seeing.